Flavio Bonomi is the founder and the Chief Technology Officer at Nebbiolo Technologies, a young startup active in the domain of the Internet of Things, with particular focus on Industrial Automation. He is also involved in consulting and advisory roles on IoT with a number of large corporations and startups, as well as the incubation of new startups. Previously, Flavio was a Cisco Fellow, Vice President, and the Head of the Advanced Architecture and Research Organization at Cisco Systems, in San Jose, California. He was co-leading the vision and technology direction for Cisco’s Internet of Things initiative. This broad, Cisco-wide initiative encompasses major verticals, including Energy, Connected Vehicle and Transportation, and Connected Cities. In this role, with the support of his team, he shaped a number of Research and innovation efforts relating to mobility, security, communications acceleration, distributed computing and data management.

Arnaud Mathieu is the Program Director, Internet of Things Development - IBM Analytics. In his position, Mr. Mathieu oversees all the research and development work for IBM MessageSight and the Internet of Things Foundation Service on Bluemix. Mr. Mathieu has held various technical and management roles during his 18 years career at IBM. Most recently, he was responsible for the Financial Services Solutions development organization. Mr. Mathieu also worked with Tivoli earlier in his career. Mr. Mathieu graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris (ECP) in Paris, France.

Satwant Singh has been involved in the FPGA industry for over 25 years, starting with his graduate research related to the question, "What logic block would provide the best performance for an FPGA?" at the University of Toronto, Canada. Currently, as Director of Strategic Planning and Ecosystem at Lattice Semiconductor Corp., his responsibilities include working with the industry partners to develop roadmaps and standards for addressing the emerging and growing industries, like, mobile and IOT. For example, at MIPI Alliance, he is the vice chair of the Sensor Working Group that is developing the specifications for a new sensor interface, I3C/SenseWire, that would be backwards compatible to the legacy I2C and, at the same time, will include improved features for lower power, lower latency and higher throughput. In February 2014, he organized and moderated a panel related to FPGAs in mobile at the 22nd ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), California. He holds over 25 patents.

Thomas Watzka is the Technical Mobile Solutions Manager at Lattice Semiconductor. He has over 15 years of experience in developing embedded products including 6 years at Lattice developing consumer mobile solutions with the iCE family of mobile FPGA devices.

Steve Langridge is the Director, R&D – Hardware Acceleration Platform for Huawei. Steve started the Huawei Canada Research Centre in Toronto in early 2014. Previously, he worked for IBM for 18 years across multiple careers ranging from building hardware to software to data centers and cloud solutions. Steve is passionate about marrying the worlds of HW & Software to create new platforms that will bring further insight into the human experience.